Month: July 2016

When Anna was tiny and Henry was 2.5 yrs old I made a pact with myself never to leave my house with them because it was terrible when I left the house. Terrible. I couldn’t manage all the screaming and unpredictable mayhem and it left me jumpy and miserable. We ordered in. A lot. Over …

‘MOMMY, YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL….AND SMART.’ This came from Anna tonight. It was incredibly sweet and cool. Blew me away. Minded my boggle. She may have been flopping around the bed trying to avoid sleep, grasping for compliment straws, but still. I’ve never known how much to talk about her appearance. Some influences tell me that I …

I don’t know why this has been so hard for me to write. I feel horrified and angry and sympathetic and shameful. Maybe it’s the shame. Shame always shuts people up. It’s also that voicing these feelings might make some people feel upset, hurt and blamed. There’s a great deal of shame and blame going …

I was part of an online momming community for a while called something like the Longest/Shortest Time. I quit it because the moms on it are like me, terribly neurotic. It didn’t intend to be judgmental, but still it stressed me out to read about all the creative things women across the world had found …

Sarah Zimmerman

Sarah is a writer and a Physician Assistant, mom of two, wife of one, and co-owner of a vegan ice cream business. She aims to keep laughing, finding the funny in the hard stuff of life.
She is the third place winner of the 2018 Mark Twain House Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Contest: https://marktwainhouse.org/royal-nonesuch